Unions and Busters
In 2025, thousands of baristas across the country took part in a 2025 strike known as the “red cup rebellion” after this company’s failure to finalize a fair union contract in any of its locations.
What is Starbucks?
This 2025 bill slashed healthcare and food assistance programs for millions of Americans.
What is the Big Beautiful Bill?
Joe’s program contains this many points.
What are 5?
This government-funded program, which sent police officers into schools on a nationwide anti-drug campaign, was not only wildly unsuccessful in its heyday, but explicitly encouraged children to report their own family members to law enforcement.
What is the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (the D.A.R.E. Program)?
This is a slang term for a worker who “crosses the picket line” or continues to work during an active union strike, hurting the collective bargaining power of other employees.
What is a scab?
ICE’s terror on immigrant communities has escalated tremendously in the last year. When ICE murdered this woman, acting as a legal observer inside her car, it sparked the Jan. 23rd “Day of truth and reckoning” in Minneapolis.
Who is Renee Nicole Good?
In Joe's program, he labels capitalism as this.
What is a crisis?
In the television series New Girl, this kind-hearted character decides to become a police officer after years of career uncertainty, even though he recalls that the cops did not make him feel safe as a kid.
Who is Winston Bishop?
This is a term for someone who finds employment at a particular workplace with the intention of organizing a union there.
What is a salt?
The price of gas in MA has gone up this much since the start of Trump’s illegal and unprovoked war against Iran. (% format)
What is 13%?
In our Emergency Act to End War and Militarism, we plan to cut the military budget by this percentage.
What is 90%?
The production of this 1991 psychological thriller, starring Jodie Foster, received full cooperation from the FBI, as they saw it as a potential recruiting tool to hire more female agents.
What is Silence of the Lambs?
This refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between employers and labor unions. In states with these laws, employees of a unionized shop do not all have to join the union, contributing to a fractured workplace with less worker solidarity.
What are right-to-work laws?
When Trump says, “Cuba is next, but let’s get this one done first”, this is what he's referring to.
What is forced regime change in Cuba and Iran?
This is Joe's favorite anime series.
What is One Piece?
The term "thin blue line" is a metaphor that depicts police officers as the indispensable line between these two forces.
What are law-and-order and chaos?